Fig. 15 Ezra writing the Law. Frontispiece to the Codex Amiatinus. In the background is a press with open doors. The picture was probably drawn in the middle of the sixth century A.D.Fig. 15 Ezra writing the Law. Frontispiece to the Codex Amiatinus. In the background is a press with open doors. The picture was probably drawn in the middle of the sixth century A.D.
THE
CARE OF BOOKS
London: C. J. CLAY and SONS,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE,
Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.
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THE
CARE OF BOOKS
An Essay on the
Development of Libraries and
their Fittings, from the earliest times to
the end of the Eighteenth Century
By
John Willis Clark, M.A., F.S.A.
Registrary of the University
and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE
at the University Press
1901
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
FRANCISCO AIDANO GASQUET
MONACHO BENEDICTINO
D.D.
MAGISTRO DISCIPULUS
[vii]
PREFACE.
When engaged in editing and completing The Architectural History of theUniversity and Colleges of Cambridge, I devoted much time and attentionto the essay called The Library. The subject was entirely new; and themore I looked into it, the more convinced did I become that it would wellrepay fuller investigation than was then possible. For instance, I feltcertain that the Customs affecting monastic libraries would, if one couldonly discover them, throw considerable light on collegiate statutesrelating to the same subject.
The Architectural History having been published, I had leisure to studylibraries from my new point of view; and, while thus engaged, Ifortunately met with the admirable paper by Dom Gasquet which he modestlycalls Some Notes on Medieval Monastic Libraries. This brief essay—itoccupies only 20 pages—opened my eyes to the possibilities that laybefore me, and I gladly place on record here the debt I owe to thehistorian to whom I have dedicated this book.
When I had the honour of delivering the Rede Lecture before the Universityof Cambridge in June 1894, I attempted a reconstruction of the monasticlibrary, shewing its relationship, through its fittings, to[viii] thecollegiate libraries of Oxford and Cambridge; and I was also able,following the example set by Dom Gasquet in the above-mentioned essay, toindicate the value of illuminated manuscripts as illustrating the life ofa mediev                        
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